Category Archives: Web

Choosing the right Javascript framework

Every organization goes through a cycle of reviewing and updating applications that have become dated and harder to maintain. There are many new competing technologies for building responsive web applications, both on the client and server side. A number of javascript frameworks are open source and free, and primarily for building Single Page Applications. Looking […]

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HTML 5 – Useful Links

Some useful HTML 5 related links, Standard Specshttp://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers.http://caniuse.com HOW WELL DOES YOUR BROWSER SUPPORT HTML5?www.html5test.com HTML5 IE enabling scripthttp://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/ HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site.http://html5boilerplate.com/

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Using canvas element in HTML 5

Canvas is an interesting HTML5 feature. HTML 5 defines the <canvas> element as “a resolution-dependent bitmap canvas which can be used for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly.” A canvas is a rectangle in your page where you can use JavaScript to draw anything you want. Here’s a quick example […]

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HTML5 – Useful Links

Some useful HTML 5 related links, Standard Specs http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers. http://caniuse.com HOW WELL DOES YOUR BROWSER SUPPORT HTML5? www.html5test.com HTML5 IE enabling script http://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/ HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site. http://html5boilerplate.com/

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Browsers?

Here’s a list of other browsers besides big non-IE names like Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera… Maxthon, Flock, Arora, Lunascape, SRWare Iron, Kmeleon, and QTWeb.

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Content based on browser agent strings

If you are using the “user-agent” header to detect version of the mobile browser, then the IE Mobile team is announcing some upcoming changes to the header. Now to detect the new browsers just look for the string “IEMobile” as a part of the ‘user-agent’ header.

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ASP.NET 2.0 navigation controls

The ASP.NET 2.0 navigation controls are neat and easy to use. The controls ‘SiteMapPath’, ‘TreeView’ and ‘Menu’ all use the same asp.net navigation API and can be tied to an XML datasource. The entire web site hierarchy(sitemap) can be placed in an XML file called web.sitemap in the application’s root directory. There is a single […]

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Organizing a code camp

Organizing a code camp, especially one for the first time takes time a lot of time and effort. Some things to contend with, -Need a venue which will support multiple rooms with audio-visual capability that can hold a large group of attendees. -Sponsors for the food and giveaways and monetary -Volunteers to man check in […]

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asp.net 2.0

If you cannot browse to an .aspx page under IIS 6.0 be sure to – check in IIS if “Web Service Extensions” is allowed and not prohibited – run aspnet_regiis -i IIS 6.0 disable ASP.net support by default.

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Mix 06 – Building Components and Services for the Programmable Web

Only caught part of this session, as it was on the last day and had to leave early to catch my flight.Nikhil Kothari is the Software Architect in the UI Framework group and his talk mainly focussed on consuming and building mash-ups, enabling and authoring gadgets and services. He demonstrated an application – musicMix that […]

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